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Since 1978, however, China has been waging an equally fierce campaign to save its unique wildlife. Some 260 new nature reserves, covering 60,000 sq. mi., have been established. The government is taking a strong-arm approach to conservation: two fishermen were jailed recently for killing three endangered river dolphins, and two factory workers were fined for shooting one of China's twelve known ibis. Says Archibald, "I'm so impressed by what the Chinese have done. Before 1979 they didn't even know where the birds were...
...vintage Mauser bolt-action rifles, given by the CIA in 1982. Though weapons and ammunition have been in woefully short supply, the stockpile is growing again. According to high- level F.D.N. sources, the contras possess an unspecified number of surface- to-air missiles to counter the Soviet Mi-24 Hind-D helicopters that the Sandinistas received last fall. For the past two months, truck convoys have ferried weapons from Honduras, including West German G-3 automatic assault rifles and dynamite...
...even Ornstein confesses that something odd happens when all of this ambition and money come together in the 257-sq.-mi. Beltway cooker. Being the focus of national news creates an unwarranted sense of self-importance. Economic security diminishes sympathy and understanding. The concerns of Pittsburgh and Bakersfield and a thousand other places grow more and more remote...
Dietz said Hong Kong's rowers consider the annual race, held on the Mi Lo river, "a reenactment of a moment in history," commemmorating the death of poet and former government minister Chu Yan, who drowned in the river...
...Spain's chagrin, the British have possessed the Mediterranean fortress since 1704, when British Admiral Sir George Rooke seized the 2.25-sq.-mi. peninsula during the War of Spanish Succession. Gibraltar's residents (now 31,183) have rebuffed repeated Spanish attempts to reclaim the territory. In 1969, Spanish Dictator General Francisco Franco cut land, sea and telephone links with the colony. His intention: literally to starve Gibraltar's inhabitants into agreeing to a reunion with Spain. But the Gibraltarians, determined to remain under British rule, turned to nearby Morocco for supplies...